Painting 33

Ref. 1065.- Watercolor & gel ink; over Stardream crystal color paper

This painting has been made taking advantage of the  clear shimmery surface of this paper is not made for watercolor purposes, but Works pretty good with watercolor paints is quite similar to hot press paper but whith many colors to work with, (weight is 105 lb and the color is refered as crystal).    

 
This is the result of this new project


                    "A breeze, a sunny day, a smile, all can fit into a window"

1st Step  Tip Pure, straight-from-the-tube black is invariably too dark in tone and too consistent or flat in color to make a satisfactory shadow. Mixing a chromatic black is already an improvement, but using a complementary color will produce a more subtle, natural effect
 The logical color to use is violet, being the complementary of yellow, the color of sunlight - I created violet by glazing  ultramarine with red as I wanted to make it more darker I added Brown also, this paper needs several layers to reach the values you need, so needs to wait for dry condition through the different layers
Note.- my initial main guidance lines were made with a brush wet in (diluted graphite into wáter) the graphite over this paper help to texturize painting above

 

2nd Step.-  Shadows shouldn't be done at the last minute as an after-thought, as something totally separate from the main subject of the painting so I try to mix  my main colors within so now the green mixed with all close around also let the gravity help to mix colors by tilting your painting paper as you progress

 

 

3rd. Step  gel ink in pen, Works pretty good like a fine brush to make fine lines, once you apply it to define forms you can add wáter above now with a fine wet brush and fade them accordingly, I did use because this type of ink has glow particles which will give a shiny condition at the end I did use just Green and Brown in áreas were light is hit

 

 

4th Step As I´m progresing I apply more shadowing with a big brush  from my initial pool and integrating lifting up part of the paint with an absorbent paper, while I´m defining the Green leaves

 

 

Step 5th.- I start to adding permanent White gouache which is opaque White to cover window frames and to form reflections integrating also with an absorbent paper around its applications

I also reinforce the shadows with more pure dark color  (mix of ultramarine and Brown )without use any black color